Monday, January 9, 2012

Schools of Oil Painting (1)

Schools of Oil Painting (1)

Generally, the schools of oil painting can be divided into two categories. The first category is the collection of those creative works of objective representation, and the second category is base on subjective performance.

In the first category, those schools appeared after Renaissnace, such as Baroque, Rococo, Classicism, College, Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism are all based on reproducing nature to show the different thoughts and purposes of artists.

Baroque School --- Baroque was popular in 17th to 18th century. “Baroque”, originally means irregular, twisted and eerie. Esteem movement distortion, plump body and feeling in its intense artistic language, exaggeration, dynamic, flashy, which are the main features of Baroque School oil paintings. Rubens is the representative of Baroque School.

Rococo School --- “Rococo” originally refers to the shape of shells. Their artistic styles are complicated, delicate, thin and sweet. It was popular during 18th century. Jean-A ntoine Watteau and Francois Buu can be said as the representatives of Rococo School. 

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